Along with a few other goals this year, we (viri and I) have decided that its time to get caught up on watching our extensive movie collection. So, Viri and I have started watching movies 1-9, then A-Z of our "to be watched" movie list. Today we start with a movie called "2:37", which was an interesting film but unfortunately flawed on so many levels.  This movie essentially copied the wonderfully done movie "Elephant" by Gus Van Sant (a local portland director) and butchered it into a suicidal, teen drama which portrayed a very sick modern youth. Not to say that our youth isn't sick.

The saddest part about this movie is the reality that these kids exist in today's schools. This movie is about a suicide that takes place near the beginning of the movie and they take us back to the beginning of the day to see how everything unfolds. You get to see that sadly any of the eight or so students could have easily been suicidal. The homosexual, the bulimic girl, the raped sister, the jock, and the kid who wet's his pants due to having dual urethra's make this somewhat intriguing to find out the result.  Unfortunately it's painfully slow, and you had better have a red-bull with you to stay awake through it's entirety. The nice thing about this movie is the shock of who did end up being the one, and that this movie is a dedication to that person who died at 2:37pm.  Overall, I would recommend just skipping this movie and watching something a little less depressing.

Recommended: No (See Elephant instead)
Rating: 5/10